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Takikomi Gohan
Takikomi Gohan is a traditional and comforting Japanese rice dish prepared using an assortment of vegetables, mushrooms, and meat.
Cost $15
Equipment
- 1 rice cooker
Ingredients
- 2 cups rice: short or medium grain Japanese rice
- 1/4 pounds ground pork or chicken
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 2 cups total of: Chopped dried shiitake or maitake, carrots, daikon radish, abura-age, itokonnyaku (yam noodles) all cut into small pieces
- 1/4 cup light or regular soy sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup water, dashi, or water from reconstituting shiitake mushroom
- splash mirin or sugar-optional
- Goma Shio for serving
Instructions
- Reconstitute shiitake mushroom in about one cup of water-do this couple of hours before starting to cook.
- Gather ingredients.
- Wash rice and set it on a calendar to drain excess water. Set it aside.
- Cut carrots, daikon radish, abura-age, reconstituted shiitake mushroom, and yam noodles into small pieces, almost as small as rice grain. See picture.
- Heat a medium frying pan over medium heat and add sesame oil. Cook the pork (or chicken) until almost cooked through then add the vegetables.
- Add soy sauce and a splash of mirin (optional) and cook for a couple of minutes. Add 1 cup of water (or Dashi) and cook until vegetables are tender, about 5-7 minutes.
- Set a colander over a bowl and empty cooked vegetable and meat onto the colander. Make sure to catch all the liquid from cooking.
- Measure the cooking liquid and add enough water to make 2 ½ cups.
- In a rice cooker add washed rice and the measured liquid, and salt. Soak for 15-30 minutes.
- Cook rice according to the rice cooker. When it reaches the end of cooking, add the cooked ingredients on top of the rice, and put the cover back on for the steaming part of the cycle.
- After 10 minutes or so of steaming time, mix the rice, vegetables, and meat together.
- Sprinkle it with Goma Shio (sesame salt) and serve warm. Enjoy!
